Effective Prototyping with Excel

Although recognized as a key to the design process, prototyping often falls victim to budget cuts, deadlines, or lack of access to sophisticated tools. Rather than lose this step, people are turning to Microsoft Excel[Registered] to create effective, simple, and inexpensive prototypes. This book offers step-by-step guidance to prototyping.

Autorentext
Nevin Berger is design director at Ziff Davis Media. Previously he was a senior interaction designer at Oracle Corporation and Peoplesoft, Inc., and has held creative director positions at World Savings and OFOTO, Inc. Michael Arent is the director of user interface standards at SAP, and has previously held positions at Peoplesoft, Inc, Adobe Systems, Inc, MetaDesign,Sun Microsystems, and Apple Computer, Inc. He holds a number of U.S. and international patents.Jonathan Arnowitz is a User Experience Architect at Google Inc. and is the co-editor-in-chief of Interactions Magazine. Most recently Jonathan was a User Experience Architect at SAP Labs and was a Senior User Experience Designer at Peoplesoft. He is a member of the SIGCHI extended executive committee, and was a founder of DUX, the first ever joint conference of ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, AIGA Experience Design Group, and STC.

Klappentext
Prototyping is a key step in the development of successful products. Yet budgetary restrictions, deadlines, and lack of access to sophisticated tools often lead to sloppy, ineffective prototyping. Designers need efficient visualization tools that quickly communicate ideas, and help improve the realization of their ideas. Effective Prototyping for Excel offers just that by illustrating how anyone can use basic Excel skills to create prototypes. Excel is available on virtually every desktop, and most professionals are proficient with at least its basic functionality. This book offers step-by-step guidance of how to see a prototyping project through from start to finish, in the context of collaborative teams and respective work environment. A range of software design problems and business demands are solved as practical examples complemented by full color illustrations, offering the a fast, cost-effective and reliable tool for prototyping.

Zusammenfassung
"Collaboration across marketing, design, engineering, and QA organizations is key to the successful creation of a new software product. The Excel prototyping method is the only approach I am familiar with that allows all these stakeholders the same platform for communication without having to learn lots of new tools." --**Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, SAP User Experience

"It is always a challenge to find good tools for interactive rapid prototyping. The authors have created an excellent methodology that allows both novice and advanced user experience professionals to use their knowledge of common desktop tools to quickly illustrate and test their ideas for interactive products." --Jeremy Ashley, Vice President, Applications User Experience, Oracle**

Inhalt

Chapter 1 - Preface - A Developer's Dilemma
Chapter 2 - Getting Started - Your First Excel Prototype
Chapter 3 - Basics - The Excel Prototyping Canvas
Chapter 4 - Creating an Excel Prototyping Template
Chapter 5 - Excel Prototyping - Storyboards
Chapter 6 - Wireframes
Chapter 7 - Digital Interactive Prototypes
Chapter 8 - Iterating Prototypes with Excel
Chapter 9 - Communicating Your Design in Excel
Chapter 10 - Sharing Your Excel Prototype
Appendix A - Useful Techniques with Excel
Appendix B - Nevin Discovers Excel as a Rapid Prototyping Tool